Kolek planning to go pro
Imagine not liking football.The US needs to do something to make the MLS a viable league. The competition doesn’t even compare.
Women's World Cup kicking off today and the Gold Cup coming next Saturday. The USMNT wasn't good against Jamaica and, other than Pulisic, seems pretty underwhelming. So they'll probably do just enough to come up short, making a final and losing to Mexico.
What’s the reason Sargent was left off both squads?
There is a lot of "this is the way we do things here" mentality, IMO, with how some of US Soccer operates. US Soccer feels like a division of a successful company, but that division is getting destroyed against its competition but they refuse to adapt or mirror whats giving the competition the edge, and stick to their established way of doing things. Both the structure and decision making is part of the same toxic tree.
That type of revolution is why the women are so successful.
By how is the structure of the women's system markedly different than that of the men's? They seem almost identical to me, expect the men have nudged closer to a European model with MLS club-sponsored academies and the like.I see the woman's success far more a result of cultural/societal factors than anything systemic. Americans have embraced and encouraged women in team sports far earlier and far more substantively than pretty much any other country, with a couple of exceptions in a couple of sports (volleyball, perhaps?).
The US can throw millions at the mens team, but they are still running a race from behind globally. Even if they don't have quite as much money, these countries have been developing talent and teams cohesively for 50+ years or longer.
Forgive me if this question is stupid, but as someone who likes soccer but doesn't follow it much I don't know the answer: is the Champions League a bigger deal than the Premier League? I know Liverpool was close to both, so was the Champions League a "consolation prize" for finishing second in the standings? Or would that have been the ultimate goal all along? The competition structure in European soccer is so different than the sports here in America -- we have one championship (Super Bowl, Stanley Cup, etc.) that is the clear-cut goal. European soccer has several cups of varying importance. I'll hang up and wait for your answer.
I'll stick with my opinion on Gold. He'll be in foul trouble within the first eight minutes.
Excuses, excuses.Pablo Escobar threw a bunch of money at the Colombian soccer program in the late 80s and within a matter of years turned it from a program that had qualified for one World Cup in its history into one that's consistently been ranked in the top 10-15 in the world. It's been 25 years since the U.S. hosted the World Cup and the program isn't significantly better off today than it was then.Croatia didn't exist as a country 30 years ago and today they're 5th in the FIFA world rankings.The notion that the U.S. can't be good at soccer because it's bound by the history of 50 years ago is nonsense.
I'm not making excuses, Ive literally crapped on the US Soccer program and how its run in both threads. You're being willfully ignorant to the macro factors.
By how is the structure of the women's system markedly different than that of the men's?